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007Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Good evening everyone and welcome to the April 9th special meeting of the Levittown Board of Education. May I have a motion to reconvene the meeting? Maryanne, a second. Phyllis. All in favor? 5. Thank you. Can everyone please rise for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. May I please have a moment of silence to remember all those serving our country at home and overseas. Thank you. Please note Peggy Morangi and Christina Lang are excused from this meeting. We're now going to move on to public be heard. We have no public signed up for this evening. No
008public. No public humans. We're now going to move on to our agenda. I'm just reading this. Correct. All right. Item 3.1. Whereas during site excavation and development of the NICD approved capital project reference number 2820503-000011-025 authorized on May 16th 2023 currently underway at Wisdom Lane Middle School that includes the installation of an artificial multi-purpose athletic field to be constructed in the northwest part of the school property. The foundation and infrastructure of a demolished building was found buried approximately 18 in to 2 ft below grade. And whereas much of this demolished building's mechanical infrastructure also appears to be buried or partially buried and is laden with various ACM materials potentially contaminating the soil at the site and exposing asbestous which could become a fryable upon contact. And whereas according to initial estimates, approximately 10,000 cubic yards
009of potentially hazardous material must be removed from site at an estimated cost of approximately $3 million with funding coming from the May 16th, 2023 voter approved capital reserve expenditure proposition. Now therefore, it is hereby resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools and district architect that the board of education declares an unforeseen emergency requiring immediate action that cannot wait competitive bidding to remediate and abate the potentially hazardous asbestous materials described above and it is further resolved to select and appoint Branch Services Inc. to provide these needed remedial services and to commence work as soon as possible. Do I have a motion to accept item 3.1? Mike, do I have a second? James, any discussion? I do. Um, Mike, Mr. Fabiano, can you just tell us about the use of uh building aid and also
010possible insurance? Uh, yeah. So uh you know uh obviously uh we the the cost of the remediation is substantial and so we be immediately began looking for uh funding sources. Uh the good news is that uh with the work of our district architect John Gillow um we we reached out to facilities planning and we determined that um we were told that this project would be eligible for building aid. So at um at approximately 60% uh more than half of this project would be paid for uh by the state um in in uh as part of the overall project at Wisdom. Uh in addition to that, we uh we're looking at alternate funding sources to help us with our share. Uh we kind contacted Nicer, our insurance company. They're going to be sending an adjuster out
011to uh uh visit the site and uh review our policies to see if there are any relief we might get uh uh through an insurance claim. Uh and then lastly uh we are looking into any potential uh grants for example through um DEEC uh that might provide funding. So um um right now the plan would be to utilize the money from the capital reserve as it was identified uh in the in the um resolution. Uh we'll be receiving approximately 1.8 of that back from the state. Uh and then any additional funding would certainly be welcome from either insurance or um state or federal grants. DEEC from New York State. It would likely be uh it would likely be DEEC, although um you know, we we're looking into uh really anything that might provide some relief
012for that. Thank you for looking that up. Jimmy, uh Mike, did uh I see that you recommend well, they want to appoint branch services. Did they have to did you have to go out to bid for this? Uh no. actually one part part of the resolution is that since you declared this emergency um um and and Bob obviously helped draft this this this resolution, but part of the benefit is that we don't have to wait, the community doesn't have to wait to begin cleanup while we go through that uh bidding process. However, what I will say is branch was selected off a cooperative bid. So, um, you know, even if you didn't have that, they could have been selected, uh, for this project because I believe it was, uh, they believe one of the SUFFK,
013uh, I don't know if it was Western SuffK or Eastern SuffK Boseies, but Branch did win that bid. So, I I think, uh, either way, we're covered on that. Thank you, Jimmy and Mike. Phyllis or Marin, did you want to add anything? [Music] I think we're covering all our bases and I really don't think that we have a choice and waiting. We need to take care of it. It is an emergency. So, I think that it's prudent uh that we go ahead. Okay. I do want to just mention to anyone listening at home, maybe this is the first you're hearing of it, but I just want to ask how is the community going to be notified of I guess this first occurring and going forward about the process? Uh thank you, President Msina. So, um,
014as we are required to notify, um, those that live around the area as well as those in the building of any sort of, uh, asbestous abatement whenever we do it, um, we will be notifying the community probably starting tomorrow. Uh, we already have a draft letter to send to those that live along the property line of Wisdom Lane as well as for the staff and, uh, families that have students at Wisdom Lane. Uh so that that communication will go out I assume tomorrow because we are hoping to uh have work begin starting over the break uh next week. So yes, we'll uh absolutely send that letter out and um uh in the letter, you know, let everybody know if they have questions or concerns, they can always reach out to my office and we'll be
015happy to have a conversation with them. Great. Thank you. Anyone else? Like to Hello. There you go. I'd like to thank the board and central office for getting on top of this matter quickly and looking for a way to resolve it in a way that the community can afford it. Community is notified about it and how upfront we are with everything here. So yeah, just and just to comment on that, Mr. Bis, I just want to thank uh our architect, Mr. Guilla, for coming out to um I know answer some questions the board had as well as to Mr. Camrada, our facilities director, and to the board of education for coming together uh so quickly because we did not have a meeting scheduled for tonight. And uh as always, you're always there putting the community
016first ahead of your own personal needs. Um but I agree with uh what Miss Dalton said uh that we really have no choice in this matter. This is something that needs to be cleaned up. Like you said, Mr. Papis, um it really is about um transparency and about doing what's right uh for the community. You know, this is a place that we uh hold dear to our hearts and we want to make sure that uh even when we're all done and either off the board or out of our positions, want to make sure we leave the community in a better place than when we found it. And this definitely does that. Amen. It's also nice to know that Phyllis has all the asbestous training and the input she gave us here tonight. Fantastic extra bonus
017here. Um, we're going to go for a vote then. All in favor? We're 5. May I now please have a motion to adjourn the special meeting? Maryanne and Phyllis second. All in favor? 5. Meeting adjourned. [Music] Thanks for being here, John and Greg.